Tonight was a night we’ll remember for quite some time. Not only did we sweep the Arch Baron Cup (again), but our senior boys grabbed their 98th win. This puts them atop the Dayton Basketball ladder with the most wins by a class in school history. To put the cherry on top, Archie took home some records of his own: seven straight Arch Baron Cup victories and his fourth straight 20-win season. Maybe the most historic night any of us will see in our lifetimes.

But sadly, glory doesn’t come free of charge:

In the first half we found our rhythm early (for once) and watched tonight’s Harewood Horse winner Charles Cooke go 3-for-3 from behind the arc. A couple other surprising events: Josh played 10 minutes and scored 4 points (along with a nice block), and Crosby didn’t commit a single turnover in the 5 minutes he played. The Magic of the Cup was shining bright tonight, as the young backup point guard drained his only shot from the field. The Fliers went into the locker room up 41-17 after shooting a nice little 60.9 percent.

Look, Arch Baron nights aren’t meant for statistical analyses or long blogs, they’re meant for us to come together and celebrate one of the country’s longest and scariest rivalries. Tonight was fun to watch on both ends of the court regardless of our opponent. We were making shots. The X-Man earned his first start. Josh played some good minutes and finished with 12 points. Cooke led the squad with 18 points and I’m thoroughly excited that he’s starting to shoot the ball again. We shot 50 percent from three-point land (9 of 18), 57 percent from the field, and added another 20 points from the charity stripe.

Adonys Henriquez (Central Florida), Ty Graves (Boston College), Javon Bess (Michigan State), and D.J. Foreman (Rutgers). Four transfers sitting out who all started multiple games at their former Division I programs. This platoon, combined with a healthy Jermaine Bishop, will most likely makeup their starting squad next season. SLU will be a very different team indeed.

But that’s in the future; tonight is the present. Hats off to Cooke for taking home the coveted MVP hardware. Congratulations to Sam Miller for bleeding like a stuck pig at the end – you can’t buy grit like that these days. And cheers to you, Joey Gruden, for being called upon to take Miller’s final free throw and deafening all 217 fans in the crowd with the swish of the net.

One final note – Trey Landers came off the bench like a Goddamn pit bull tonight. It would be easy for a kid who hasn’t found his place yet to be a complete stiff, but he had the whole bench on their feet with his effort. Trying to guess what next year’s squad will look like is going to give us all strokes this summer, believe that.

All tied up with VCU. Few landmine games coming up, but March 1st is a big big big big game.

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God damn what a night. In laws came up from the STL to witness the monstrosity that is SLU basketball. It got so bad my six year old told grandpa…”Hey grandpa..I bet you wished you went to Dayton instead!” Such savagery and long live Chuck Little!!!

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thetruth

Jim crews is laughing his ass off somewhere, Sam Miller will be the next transfer, crosby backup pg to wright next year, Williams is a winner, what it could’ve been with the frontline of mclevene, pollard, and Cunningham, trey landers is another pet project for Archie, flyers have an elite defense, feel there will be one shining NCAA moment from these seniors, Archie can never leave dayton

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MR. WIGGLES

My dick has returned to full PLUMP status. Pretty sure it will be full on rock hard by March 1 and I will be dipping my balls in nutbutter.

Also – this team is going to be a 13-15 win in conference play next season, with Kostas and Czech boy. Mark it down.

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Out of State

Turn yourself in to the cops you flashing schmuck and quit harassing the co-ed chicks in the Ghetto late at night!

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MR. WIGGLES

No

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Kid Flyer

First +EFF game for The Cos in forever if ever but I am not buying it. Outlier. Trey is the answer. Maybe the cuckolding has run it’s course and he can get on with being the inside strength we’ve been lacking all year with Chip and Marshmallow. Hoping he will start seeing real minutes like Pollard down the stretch in 2014.

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Dick Fitzwell

I’d like to screw Lea Michele.

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MR. WIGGLES

Her face looks like a tranny with downs. Give me a break.

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Anonymous

Serious?

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T-Bolt

Do you think Archie and Morgan are showing poor sportsmanship because of his ranking in the ESPN Infinity Coaches Challenge? He and Morgan don’t seem to tweet about it everyday like they used to when it looked like he had a chance on winning. UDPriders don’t think it’s fair that the voting doesn’t get reset each round because it favors the schools with bigger student and alumni bases.

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Big Steve's Cardiologist

I’m planning to give Mark Gottfried a vote of confidence to keep the job at NC St. so that Archie isn’t tempted to leave.

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Legend of Wes Coffey

After what we saw in St Louis last night its obvious that looney bus driver should have had her bus loaded with the Billiken Players on board when she took off from their arena last week.